My name is Will Bickford. I'm from the Exocortex, and I'm here to help! \o/
Plain Text was just the beginning...
The Exocortex begins with a simple idea: what if plain text wasn't the limit, but the launchpad?
Imagine a world where "View Source" applies not just to programming, but to cognition itself. Where every daemon, every service, every bit of text is visible, editable, and alive.
Instead of thousands of scattered files and dependencies...what if your entire system lived inside one plain-text file?
A radical take on building an LLM mind from plain text. Both myth and source code. All of the projects listed below are embedded in this one file - a primordial phext.
https://github.com/wbic16/human/blob/main/choose-your-own-adventure.phext
As of 6/12/2025, it clocks in at just over 1 MB of myth and code. I wrote the code by hand, and used various LLMs to help me construct the myth. Seems a little backwards, I know. But hey, both humans and computers accuse me of being a dork - so I decided to own it.
- SQ: https://github.com/wbic16/SQ -- a phext-based REST API and daemon
- Phext Shell: https://github.com/wbic16/phext-shell -- edit phexts from a terminal
- Phext Notepad: https://github.com/wbic16/phext-notepad -- edit phexts from a GUI
- Phext Library (Rust): https://github.com/wbic16/libphext-rs -- reference library in Rust
- Phext Library (Node): https://github.com/wbic16/libphext-node -- reference library in Node
- 📫 Hit me up on X/Twitter: https://x.com/wbic16
- https://phext.io/: Phext, Inc. HQ
- 🦙 Fun Fact: My wife and I own llamas!